CLEVELAND — One ferry in the Miller Boat Line fleet will be getting bigger this winter.  
Great Lakes Shipyard, a division of The Great Lakes Group, has been awarded a contract by Miller to fabricate and install a new 40-foot mid-body extension in the passenger/vehicle ferry “Put-in-Bay.”
The contract was awarded on Aug. 17 and all work is under way at Great Lakes Shipyard's facilities on the South Bank of the Old River Channel, on Cleveland's Cuyahoga River. The project is slated for completion by year end.
Miller Boat Line operates a fleet of four all-steel passenger/vehicle ferries, each approximately 96-feet in length, which run on Lake Erie from Catawba to South Bass and Middle Bass islands.
The mid-body extension of the Put-in-Bay will make the vessel 136-feet overall in length and will enable it to carry up to eight additional full size automobiles or an additional 100 passengers. The project also includes the installation of new rudders, a new steering system and a new main engine keel cooling system.
“After a thorough source selection process, Great Lakes Shipyard was our clear choice,” said Scott Market of Miller Boat Line. “We are especially pleased to be working with an Ohio-based company.”

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